Quotes about punctuality

Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.

— Gerald Barzan

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

— Samuel Beckett

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

— John F. Boyes

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

— Richard Cecil

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

— Lord Chesterfield

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

— Nathaniel Emmons

Punctuality is the soul of business.

— Thomas C. Haliburton

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

— William Hazlitt

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

— Edgar Watson Howe

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

— Franklin P. Jones

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

— Louis XVIII

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

— Horace Mann

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

— Don Marquis

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

— Marilyn Monroe

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

— Lord Nelson

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

— Lord Nelson

The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.

— French Proverb

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

— William Shakespeare

Better never than late.

— George Bernard Shaw

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

— Charles Simmons

I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.

— E. V. Verrall

If you're there before it's over, you're on time.

— James J. Walker

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

— Evelyn Waugh

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

— Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the thief of time. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

— Oscar Wilde

I have been on a calendar, but never on time.

— Marilyn Monroe